The complete shortlist for the awards in the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize have been announced.
Two of the four authors shortlisted for the best unpublished manuscripts are local authors – Sarah Penny was shortlisted for Sangoma Boy and Rowan Whiteside for Yellow Tooth
Of the four titles shortlisted for Best Unpublished Manuscript, one will receive the Writer’s Adventure Research Award. The award is a £5,000 grant to support the writer to travel to undertake research for their next novel. They will also be offered guidance from Wilbur Smith’s literary agent, Kevin Conroy Scott, at Tibor Jones & Associates.
Nalini Ramesh (India) and Matthew di Paoli (USA) appear on the shortlist for, respectively, Turmeric and Tamarind and Holliday.
Four talented young writers have been shortlisted for the Author of Tomorrow, the category of the Prize open to writers aged 21 and under who submitted a short adventure story. The Author of Tomorrow award was created in partnership with Worldreader, a global non-profit on a mission to create a world where everyone is a reader. Through this partnership, the four shortlisted authors will be offered the opportunity to have their stories digitally published in the Worldreader Open Library, accessed by readers in 50 countries across the world. The Author of Tomorrow winner will also receive a prize of £1,000 sterling from The Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation.
To find out more about The Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation, visit www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org
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- The Beneficiaries by Sarah Penny
EAN: 9780143528609
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